Hello my wonderful family!
Happy Mother's day!
I'm anxiously looking forward to calling you and hearing your funny American accents.
Well, I'm leaving to go to the other side of the country (which really isn't that far) on Thursday! I'm being transfered over to Levin, in the Palmerston North Zone. Feel free to Google it, and find more about it than me before I get there.
So I'm nervous, but excited. Considering I'm leaving behind 3 Baptisms (Gabriel, Lyn, and her son Timana), it's pretty sad. (I'm also leaving Eamonn and Rebecca who should be getting baptized soon enough, but just aren't ready, for certain reasons, to set dates yet). I will send pictures next week of all of these wonderful people on the path to the Gospel.
I've greatly enjoyed being in Napier (our area is called Omahu, in case I haven't mentioned that), but I know Omahu is left in good hands with my man Elder Triantafillakos. To be quite honest, during the first 2 transfers. I think I was hoping I would leave for one reason or another, but I think that's why I stayed. And now that I don't want to go, I am leaving. The same thing happened with Christchurch. So I guess I should just stop loving my areas and I will be able to stay in them longer! Omahu has been a wonderful place, and I still keep thinking way far in the future about things pertaining to the Omahu ward, but then I remember I'm leaving, and so I say "Oh, yeah.... Well I hope that happens."
Omahu has been a great area for me. I've grown so much! I'm so much more of a talker than I was before and can actually hold a legitimate conversation with a stranger now.
Elder Triantafillakos and I have had a pretty good week. There wasn't any of the last minute rushes into baptism as I had hoped might happen with Rebecca or even Lyn, but it's probably much better that way. So I'm looking forward to a lot of emails from Elder Triantafillakos full of baptismal pictures.
The most exciting news of the week was last night when Gabriel Pere, The Man, quit smoking. As part of the stop-smoking program that we were FINALLY able to do last night, he crushed his pack of cigarettes and threw them across the room! When we first told him to crush them, his eyes went wide and he said NO Way! But then he stared at them for a few seconds, smashed them in his hand, and chucked them. He was so happy! And we were so happy for him, because cigarettes have been killing him! More than it does for most people. And so he was so glad to make that step in his life and is even more excited to get baptized now.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention, when I got to Levin, I will now be a District Leader. What?! I can't really believe it. But I also don't even know what to expect. I will explain more next week!
Just remember:
"True happiness comes only by making others happy"---David O. McKay
Keep doing what is right, and praying day and night!
Have a wonderful week!
I love you all so very much!
Love,
Elder David John Rowe
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